By the time we arrived at the Colosseum in Rome it was late morning – much later than we’d planned. We’d decided to walk from …

I was quite prepared to fall in love with Fontana delle Tartarughe or Turtle fountain in Rome, having read about it in the guide books. …

The Fallas festival must be one of the best known in Spain and it’s unique to Valencia. It happens every year around the feast of …

I really loved this complex in Valencia, set in the Turia Gardens away from the old town. It’s a photographer’s dream but it needs to …

The UNESCO World Heritage site La Lonja is highlighted in all the guidebooks and it was certainly one of my favourites of all the places …

After our picnic from the Mercado Central I decided to take a look at the Cathedral of Santa Maria, but as my family didn’t share …

You may be aware that I am a lover of painted ceramics, so when I discovered that there was a ceramics museum in Valencia I …

We’d seen the stalls selling Horchata (or Orxata as it’s written) at the Cuidad de las Artes y las Ciencies and around town too, so …

The sky was blue as we caught the bus into town this morning from our hotel near the City of Arts and Culture. The number …

To get our bearings in Valencia we hired bikes in the old town at Do you bike, tucked down a side street in Barrio Carmen …

The view from Richmond Hill near London as painted by many artists over the centuries